What's On Today

By KATHRYN SHATTUCK

Published: June 1, 2010

10 P.M. (NBC) LOSING IT WITH JILLIAN For eight seasons, viewers of ''The Biggest Loser'' have watched the trainer Jillian Michaels, left, reduce the overweight into sobbing heaps through her drill sergeant tactics. Now, she's bringing her tough love to eight physically unhealthy (and unsuspecting) families. She'll move in with each for five days, analyze its eating and exercise habits, expose the issues at the root of its slovenly ways and, theoretically, set it on the road to health and happiness. In this premiere episode, she travels to Wilmington, Mass., to pummel some sense into the Mastropietros. Jimbo Mastropietro has already had unsuccessful gastric bypass surgery; Agnes Mastropietro has the same surgery scheduled. Both hope to walk their daughter, Michelle, down the aisle later this year. Along the way, Ms. Michaels uncovers the cause of the family weight gain: the loss of the Mastropietros' newborn son, Jimmy, more than 20 years ago.

9 A.M. (ABC) LIVE WITH REGIS AND KELLYChris Noth discusses ''Sex and the City 2,'' and the ''American Idol'' winner, Lee DeWyze, performs.

8 P.M. (Fox) HELL'S KITCHEN A new stable of 16 chefs endures the wrath of Gordon Ramsay for the honor of working at one of his London restaurants. The Season 7 games begin as the contestants are challenged to prepare their signature dishes and then to complete a dinner service -- no excuses.

8 P.M. (ABC) WIPEOUT The obstacle course gets more extreme in this game show's third season, which officially begins on June 22 and features special theme installments like ''Ladies Night'' and ''Family Edition.'' In this two-hour preview episode, titled ''Wipeout Blind Date,'' 12 single men and 12 single women pair up on the course for a prize of $100,000. John Anderson, John Henson and Jill Wagner host.

8 P.M. (NBC) AMERICA'S GOT TALENTHowie Mandel takes over David Hasselhoff's seat in the fifth round of this competition series for amateur performers, in which the winner walks off with $1 million. Sharon Osbourne and Piers Morgan return as judges; Nick Cannon is host.

9:30 P.M. (49), 10 P.M. (13) GOODBYE SOLO (2008) An elderly Southerner (Red West) proposes an unusual business arrangement to a Senegalese cabbie (Souleymane Sy Savane, far right) working in Winston-Salem, N.C.: to drive him one way to a place called Blowing Rock for a hefty sum. ''What are you going to do, jump off?'' the driver asks. The old man says nothing. Writing in The New York Times in 2009, A. O. Scott said that the story told in ''Ramin Bahrani's wonderful third feature is moving and mysterious, and you may find yourself pondering its implications for a long time after the film's simple and haunting final images have faded.'' He added of this ''Independent Lens'' presentation: ''Grace is also what defines Mr. Bahrani's filmmaking. I can't think of anything else to call the quality of exquisite attention, wry humor and wide-awake intelligence that informs every frame of this almost perfect film.''

10 P.M. (ABC) 20/20 This special edition looks at people with superhuman abilities, like Dean Karnazes, a Californian who ran marathons on 50 consecutive days in 2006; Daniel Tammet, a British writer and autistic savant who learned the Icelandic language in seven days; Jeb Corliss, a ''birdman'' who dons a winged suit to travel up to 100 m.p.h.; and Alain Robert, a k a the French Spiderman, who scales skyscrapers.

10 P.M. (Bravo) 9 BY DESIGN This first-season finale finds Robert and Cortney Novogratz escaping to their country home with their brood of seven after deciding that selling real estate in Manhattan is hard work.

10 P.M. (BBC America) ASHES TO ASHES Gene (Philip Glenister) gets a blast from his past when the journalist Jackie Queen (Ruth Millar) arrives with the news that she's pregnant with his child. She's also investigating the disappearance of some teenagers from northern England who have resurfaced in London. One is her niece.

10 P.M. (USA) LAW & ORDER: CRIMINAL INTENT When a murder has all the markings of those committed by a serial killer executed months earlier, Detective Stevens (Saffron Burrows) must decide whether the killer is a copycat -- or whether she helped convict an innocent man. Lorraine Bracco guest stars. KATHRYN SHATTUCK